Japan says the American definitions are “painful”

The Japanese Minister of Trade said on Thursday that his country continues with the United States that the new duty President Donald Trump’s taxes, including one of 24 percent for Japanese importsThey are “very unfortunate”.

Minister Yuji Moto told reporters that the unilateral tariff measures by the United States are very unfortunate and again urged (to Washington) to not be applied to Japan.

Japan will face a 24 percent American tariff, according to Trump’s announcement.

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Japanese Prime Minister Yoshimasa Hayachi warned that they had “serious concerns with consistency (US measures) with the World Trade Organization (World Trade Organization) agreement and the commercial agreement of Japanese states.”

The European Union is ready

The definitions announced by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, constitute a “harsh blow to Global economyI regretted the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Lin on Thursday.

The higher official, who said the bloc was “ready to answer,” said, although he added that he was “too late” for negotiations.

Symbolism

A handful of Republicans from the Senate in the United States They broke ranks With President Donald Trump on Wednesday and joined the Democrats to vote on a law seeking to prevent customs tariffs to Canada, but he has the minimum opportunities for prosperity.

Trump has requested 10 percent new customs taxes to imports from all over the world and the difficult definitions of the main commercial partners. Canada did not receive additional rate Car sector.

The text, with the support of four Republicans and all Democrats in the Senate, has no actual possibilities to become a law.

But it represents a symbolic defeat of Trump in the Capitol. Republicans control both cameras, so the president had little to bear In the first months of his position.

The Senate voted 51-48 to cancel the national emergency on the northern border announced by Trump earlier this year, he used to justify the tax of 25 percent on Canadian imports.

But the opposition is mostly symbolic, when the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, the nearby ally of Trump, is obscuring any vote.

With AFP information.

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